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Delta State University has received $1,262,219 from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act through the U.S. Department of Education to assist students during the COVID-19 pandemic. The money will go directly to current DSU students.<\/p>\n
It comes from the $14 billion Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund portion of the $2 trillion CARES Act; the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund supports postsecondary education students and institutions.<\/p>\n
\u201cDSU is grateful for this federal funding that will be very helpful to many of our students whose on-campus matriculation was abruptly interrupted,\u201d said Dr. Vernell Bennett-Fairs, vice president for student affairs. \u201cStudents will receive information about the qualification criteria and a link to the grant application via their Okramail accounts. We encourage all who qualify to apply.\u201d<\/p>\n
Delta State has completed the CARES Act\/<\/em>Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund paperwork to receive a second, similar infusion from the U.S. Department of Education for institutional needs.<\/p>\n \u201cWe anticipate receiving an additional $1,262,218 soon,\u201d said Heather Kovarcik Miller, director of the Office of Institutional Grants. \u201cDelta State will use this round of funding per the Department of Education federal guidelines.\u201d<\/p>\n The CARES Act was signed into law on March 27, 2020, and is the third and largest major legislative initiative to address COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Delta State University has received $1,262,219 from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act through the U.S. Department of Education to assist students during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":566,"featured_media":86412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,9,418,296,2,1805,980,1912,1829,246],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-academics","category-admissions","category-alumni","category-community-3","category-facultystaff","category-general","category-institutional-grants","category-office-of-institutional-grants","category-press-releases","category-student-affairs","category-students"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86411"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86417,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86411\/revisions\/86417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}